Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,825 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967)
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Theodore “Tiger”Flowers (1895-1927)
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Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848-1924)
Ahmaud Arbery
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Ahmaud Arbery (1994-2020)

Explore Global African History

Diallo Telli
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Diallo Telli (1925-1977)
Claire Karekezi
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Claire Karekezi (1984- )
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Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
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First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
A Gold Washing Technique
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Ladinos and Bozales: A Brief Early History of Africans in Colombia: 1500-1800
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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States
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Running for President: George Edwin Taylor, 1904

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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11/26/2021 – Executive Director – Seattle, Washington